Chapter 588 Go, Las Vegas (2/2)

An ordinary pitching machine was not valuable and only cost at most six thousand dollars to ten thousand dollars.

However, the pitching machine they had found was a professional pitching machine, which was custom made by the manufacturer. This kind of pitching machine was unique and worth more than 100,000 dollars.

Furthermore, with the autographs of all the Yankees player in the last ten plus years, the pitching machine had a great collector's value.

”Do you know who I sold these items to?” Hans asked.

Li Du scrutinized the receipt and replied, ”Isn't the customer's name written on this? 'Pastorife Potter'—that name sounds familiar. Where have I seen it before?”

Hans placed his palm against his forehead and said, ”Oh, you really are too tired. Is your brain so broken down that you can't even remember this? It happened only recently. Let me give you a hint: Beverly Hills, Los Angeles.”

Li Du then realized. ”I remember now. It's that nerdy boy who liked to giggle, right? Doesn't that guy collect comics? Why is he also collecting sports equipment?

Hans shrugged. ”Who knows? It seems like he was wooing a lady who's infatuated with sports.”

Li Du licked his lips. As expected from someone born with a silver spoon. Spending 1,660,000 dollars just to woo a lady? That's outrageous.

Hans was also shocked by it. When he'd heard the news, he hurried over to Los Angeles to carry out the trade even though he had intended to organize a sports equipment auction.

Although 830,000 dollars was a lot and Li Du had yet to earn that much from participating in auctions, Li Du did not think highly of the money.

He could earn much more in a day at the national park. The fire opals currently in his possession were already worthed at least 3,000,000 dollars.

His wealth had dramatically increased with the appearance of the fire opal mine. He was already considering an occupation change to another type of gemstone, such as digging for diamonds in a diamond mine!

After a short recuperation at Flagstaff, they began to head to Las Vegas.

As they started driving, Hans pumped his fist into the air and shouted, ”Go, Las Vegas!”

Las Vegas was located to the northwest of Flagstaff. The distance between the two was short and only required a five-hour drive.

As everyone knew, the city of Las Vegas was one of the four biggest gambling cities in the world and had been depicted in a lot of movies and television dramas.

Truth be told, Las Vegas was not seen as a place for gambling in the eyes of Americans. It was instead a collection of tourist sites such as shopping centers, resorts, entertainment, and so on, blended into a single city.

According to the statistics from the United States Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, there was an average of 38,900,000 tourists who visited Las Vegas every year. They were mainly there to shop and enjoy delicious food, while only a small number of them came specifically to gamble.

There was a popular saying in America: ”If you are so poor that you can only afford bread, going to Las Vegas may make you rich. If you are rich enough to buy cities, going to Las Vegas may let you experience the carefree nature of homelessness.”

That was how Las Vegas was. One part of it was hell and the other part was heaven.

This was also the perception of Las Vegas in the eyes of treasure hunters: one part was hell, one was heaven.

Las Vegas was a world-renowned tourist attraction and had possibly close to 40,000,000 tourists every year. Besides bringing along and purchasing large amounts of items, they would also lose large amounts of items.

As such, there were rows upon rows of storage unit companies here. With such large amounts of items, there were always bound to be extremely valuable items inside.

Many treasure hunter would spend a few hundred dollars to bid for a storage unit and yet earned dozens, hundreds of thousands, or even millions, making a huge profit.

Despite all of that, Las Vegas was also a city of gangs with every street under their control. As America had a powerful police force, the gangs would not dare go too far but were still able to easily manage a few businesses.

The storage unit auction business in Las Vegas was under the control of gangs.